Nice article! This is one of the communities I'm trying to stay plugged into 😄

thanks! you are one of the true and faithful 🙂

I am testing another social media app called Pillowfort. Sorta like Tumblr clone but with their own twists. But unfortunately the don't support RSS.

Interesting. I think of mastodon and other "alt" social networks mostly like individual small communities. I.e. I might add them to my bookmarks if there are people already there I want to chat with, but I wouldn't put much effort into building a following or anything

There is one big difference - Mastodon is network on small sites - you need just one account to follow all of mastodon/fediverse and to interact with it. But Kyselo / Pillowfort / others don't have this interoperability built-in.

yes, it's true. what I mean is that--speaking in terms of the unbundled model--I still personally don't use mastodon as my main reading app or writing app; it's more of a peripheral thing that I check periodically along with various other communities like on discord, slack etc this is still at the hypothesis stage, but if you're using the unbundled model, I'm not sure that having federated communities necessarily matters. since the most important interop/decentralization there comes from using separate reading and writing apps. because federation comes with costs in terms of usability and development speed, it might be just as well to focus on traditional centralized communities. (though I'd still lean towards things like forums and discord servers vs. traditional-looking social networks--you can think of social networks like large individual communities, but they don't perform the role as well).

Having one single protocol to implement means two things: 1) you need to implement it properly (which is not much fun - I am not going to do this) 2) you have less possibilties with experimenting with different views and features But it's good for interaction with others. But sadly - I did not find any usable groups on Fedi. Groups are much more usable on Facebook while I don't like FB at all.